Activities

2021

• 9th International SELICUP Conference. The Global and the Local in Postmillennial Europe. Kosice, SK: U. P J Safarik, October 2021.Organisers: BRICCS and SELICUP in collaboration with RED2018-102678-T.Participants: Patricia Bastida, José Igor Prieto, Rubén Jarazo-Álvarez (BRICCS) Isabel Carrera Suárez (Intersections)

• Conference Rewriting War and Peace in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: Contemporary British and American Literature. Barcelona. September 2021. Participants: Susana Onega, Silvia Pellicer, José M. Yebra, M. Jesús Martínez, Paula Romo.

• ESSE. European Society for the Study of English, Biennial Conference. 30 August-3 September 2021.
  • Seminar S30. Cosmopolitans and Strangers: Literature, Culture and Conviviality in and beyond the West.
    Convenors: Isabel Carrera Suarez and Ananya Jahanara Kabir.
    Participants: Intersections (U. Oviedo), BRICCS (UIB)
    Esther Álvarez López, Miasol Eguíbar Holgado, Cristina Riaño Alonso, Ángela Suárez Rodríguez, Paola Prieto López (U. Oviedo); Patricia Bastida Rodríguez (UIB)
  • Seminar S4. The Poetics and Ethics of (Un)Grievability in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction. Organiser: Susana Onega Jaén (U. Zaragoza), Jean-Michel Ganteau (U. Montpellier). Participants: Susana Onega, Bárbara Arizti, José M. Yebra, Paula Romo.
  • Seminar. War and its Aftermath in Contemporary English-Speaking Theatre. Claus Peter Neumann (U. Zaragoza) and Sibel Izmir (Atılım University, Turkey).

• Summer Course “The past and the future, the planet, ourselves. New trends in anglophone fiction”. Palma de Mallorca. 5-9 July 2021.
  Organiser: BRICCS. José Igor Prieto Arranz y Katarzyna Paszkiewicz. Participants: BRICCS, Intersections, Discourse and Identity, CBT Barcelona. Isabel Carrera Suárez. Mireia Aragay Sastre, Laura Lojo Rodríguez, José Igor Prieto Arranz, Rubén Jarazo Alvarez, Rosa María Moreno Redondo, Fruela Fernández Iglesias, Aida Rosende, Katarzyna Paszkiewicz, Jane M. Ekstam, Andrea Robin Ruthven.

• EACLALS (European Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies). Online, 28-30 June 2021. Participants: Intersections (U. Oviedo), Discourse and Identity (USC), BRICCS (UIB), CNE (U. Zaragoza)
  Panels:
  • Transcultural Youths: Liminality and the Postcolonial Short Story. Participants: Laura Lojo Rodríguez (USC), Noemí Pereira Ares (USC) and Jorge Sacido Romero (USC).
  • Gendered Cosmopolitan Strangers. Agency, Movement and Mobility in Contemporary Drama and Fiction. Participants: Patricia Bastida Rodríguez (UIB), Emilia Durán Almarza, Andrea Fernández García, Paola Prieto López, Ángela Suárez Rodríguez (U. Oviedo)
  • Transcultural Mo(ve)ments: Memories, Writings, Embodiments.» Participants: Dolores Herrero, Pilar Royo-Grasa, Bianca Cherechés (U. Zaragoza)
  • Seminar. We Too: Female Voices in the Transnational Era of Crises, Migration, Pandemic and Climate Change. Silvia Pellicer (U. Zaragoza) and Julia Kuznetski (Tallinn University, Estonia).

• Seminar on Affect theory. Cinema, Popular Culture and Poetry. Palma de Mallorca. 20-21 May 2021. Organisers: BRICCS (with Centre de Recerca Teoria, Gènere i Sexualitat (U. Barcelona), LiCETC and LitAnglo (UIB)).
  Participants: Katarzyna Paszkiewicz, Andrea Ruthven (BRICCS collaborators).

• EASA. European Association of Social Anthropologists. Naples, U. of Naples. March 29-April 1 2021.

• Conference Nuevas Direcciones en los Estudios Literarios y Culturales: Pensar la ‘enfermedad’ en tiempos de pandemia. January 11-12 2021.  Organiser: BRICCS. Aida Rosende and Katarzyna Paszkiewicz

• Jarazo-Álvarez, Rubén, Aida Rosende-Pérez y Margalida Pizarro-Sirera (in collaboration with The University of Oviedo). I Inter-University Poster Competition. «American Cultures and Globalization: Representation, difference and indifference». Universitat de les Illes Balears. January 27-31 2020.

• Course «American Literature in/and Domestic Spaces» as part of the MA «Construction and Representation of Cultural Identities«. Philology and Communication Faculty, Universitat de Barcelona. Academic year 2020/2021. Participants: Rodrigo Andrés and Cristina Alsina (Coordinator).

2020

• Conference Borders, Intersections and Identity in the Contemporary Short Story in English . Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. 5 October 2020.Organisers: Project FEM2017 and RED2018-102678-T. Laura Lojo Rodriguez, Co-organiser. Plenary conference: Isabel Carrera Suárez: ‘Border(ed) UK Identities: Stories of the Shaded Ethnicity in BAME’.

• Narratives of Displacement International Conference. 6-8 November 2020. London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research and Research group BRICCS (UIB), in collaboration with the RTI2018-097186-B-I00 and the Research Network RED2018-102678-T.Participants: all the research groups that are part of RED2018-102678-T

• Project “Stories for India” carried out by undergraduate students of the Education Degree at the University of Zaragoza between 2017/2018 and 2019/2020 in collaboration with  Fundación Isabel Martín. Participants:Silvia Pellicer Ortín.

2019

• Symposium «Troubling Houses: Dwellings, Materiality, and the Self in American Literature». Universitat de Barcelona, 15 March 2019. Participants: Rodrigo Andrés (IP), Cristina Alsina, Vicent Cucarella, David Fontanals, Michael Jonik, Joana Masó, Carmen Méndez, Elena Ortells, Eva Puyuelo y Cynthia Stretch.

• 14th International Conference of the Spanish Association for American Studies (SAAS).
  • Panel: «Melville’s Architectures: Ekphrasis, Structures, and Orientations of ‘the Domestic'». University of Salamanca, 9-11 April 2019. Participants: Rodrigo Andrés (IP).
  • Round Table: «Houses, Homes, and Dwellings: The Self and the Domestic Space in the American Literary Imagination I». University of Salamnca, 9-11 April 2019. Participants: Cristina Alsina, Elena Ortells, Elena Puyuelo, Cynthia Stretch.

• BAAS 2019 (The British Association for American Studies). Round Table «Unspoken, Sexually Non-Normative, and Domestic in Melville, James, Cather and Olsen». The University of Sussex. Falmer, Sussex, UK, 25-27 April 2019. Participants: Rodrigo Andrés, Cristina Alsina, David Fontanals.

• AEDEI .18^th International Conference of the Spanish Association of Irish Studies. Difference and Indifference in Irish Studies. Alcudia, Mallorca. 29-31 May 2019. Participants: BRICCS. Aida Rosende-Pérez, Rubén Jarazo-Álvarez, Margarita Pizarro-Sirera (Organising Committee), José Igor Prieto-Arranz (Scientific Committee).

• International Conference Narrative Co-construction I and II. University of Navarra, Pamplona. 30 May-1 June 2019. Organisers: Virginia Pignagnoli, Melba Cuddy-Kean (U. of Toronto) and Margarita McMurry (U. of Birmingham).

• 16th ISSEI (International Society for the Study of European Ideas) Conference. University of Zaragoza. 2-5 June 2019.
  • «New Feminisms in a Transnational and Transmodern World».  Organiser: Silvia Pellicer. Ortín. Participants: Silvia Pellicer, Susana Onega, Bárbara Arizti, Silvia Martínez Falquina, Burcu Gülüm Tekin and Violeta Duce.
  • «Global Capitalism and its Destitute Masses.» Organiser: Pilar Royo Grasa. Participants: Pilar Royo Grasa, Dolores Herrero, José María Yebra, Maarten Renes and Bianca Cherechés.

• 25th Biennial Conference (Italian Association of North-American Studies). University of Catania, Italy. 28-28 September 2019. Narratives across Borders: Generic and Epistemological Breaches in 21st Century North-American Literature. Organisers: Virginia Pignagnoli and Pia Masiero (U. Venezia).

• Symposium «20 aniversario de la Asociación Amigos de Odisha». Round Table «El último Virrey de la India». Centro Joaquín Roncal, Zaragoza, Spain. 9 October 2019. Participants: Dolores Herrero, M. Pilar Royo Grasa and Elena Oliete.

• Conference Making Waves. Digital Feminism and Fourth Wave Connectivity. University of the Balearic Islands, Mallorca. 21 November 2019. Organisers: Rosende-Pérez, Aida and Rubén Jarazo-Álvarez. Participants: Andrea Ruthven (Universidad de Cantabria).